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CM Stacker 830 + Fans?

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ImAgainstIt

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I have a CM Stacker 830 SE ssn-3 and er... 8 fans, what is the best setup for this case?

Right now it is :
Top & Rear fans blowing out
PSU fan sort of blowing out air.
Front 2 fans blowing in air

and 4 side fans blowing in (but barely on as I don't know what setup for them).

All fans except PSU and one of the Front are 1920ish RPM, the second from fan is around 1080rpm. so it is negative pressure I guess

Also does pressure mean anything ? like will having 6 fans blowing in damage the other fans by putting strain on them ?

Thanks alot
 
I have my 830 set up similarly. My top and rear fans are blowing out, the front fan is mounted on the hard drive cage and is blowing in on them. My 4 side fans are blowing in. I'm running an EVGA 780i board with a quad core xeon x3210. I've got 2 8800GTSs in SLI. My PSU is I guess "upside down" as related to most other cases and pulls air in from the outside/top of the case, then out the back.
If in fact the 6 fans blowing in are putting pressure on your exhaust fan, logic would suggest that might have a detrimental affect on the fan. Will it affect the life of that fan? who knows.....
 
With my stacker 830 most of the time i leave the 4 fan door off because if its on it disrupts the air flow(I also have the 830 with the clear side panel, i currently working on making a mesh side panel). im currently testing as to what happens with the four side fans being used for exhaust.

And i may be wrong but,
high pressure=less dust hotter ambient air temp
low pressure=more dust lower ambient air temp
 
TeeJay88 said:
With my stacker 830 most of the time i leave the 4 fan door off because if its on it disrupts the air flow(I also have the 830 with the clear side panel, i currently working on making a mesh side panel). im currently testing as to what happens with the four side fans being used for exhaust.

And i may be wrong but,
high pressure=less dust hotter ambient air temp
low pressure=more dust lower ambient air temp
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Same here. Recently I added a rather tall HSF so I completely removed the 4 fan tray.

One thing I noticed right away is a greater reduction in noise. I guess something on that tray was vibrating away.
 
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